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Baba Brinkman

A former tree-planter who personally planted more than one million trees, Baba Brinkman has fashioned himself into the world’s first “peer reviewed rapper”. Like all of Brinkman’s recent albums, Climate Chaos was written in consultation with scientific experts – Michael Mann, Naomi Oreskes, and NASA’s Gavin Schmidt, among others, plus a guest appearance from Bill Nye reprising the Notorious BIG.

The result is some of the most intelligent, and disturbing, music in the industry today, dropping science over soulful hooks and hard-core hip-hop beats and turntablism, with journalistic rhymes designed to provoke both thought and action. Brinkman has harsh truths to offer climate deniers and environmentalists alike. Despite what the hybrid car commercials might tell us, our individual responses to climate change aren’t even close to sufficient to stop it. Only through coordinated action can we make a difference. In other words: the challenge is to move the crowd, and Baba Brinkman is stepping up.